Busy Weekend!

Wow what a busy weekend I've just had!

My girlfriend's daughter turned 21 last week & her party was on Saturday night :)

Jennifer & I have been friends since Jessica was 2 - so you can imagine how old we both felt on Saturday night - he he he!

[The pink ring is the bling that we bought for Jess!]

Jessica has turned out to be a beautiful young woman - she is about to start university & has a wonderful group of friends. We spent the evening eating, talking, playing kelly pool, dancing & having a great time. The kids all left about 11.30pm to go night clubbing in Surfers & I'm sure they had lots of fun too!

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Then, on Sunday morning Mike & I crawled out of bed at 6am [literally for me] to spend the morning at Springbook in the Gold Coast Hinterland for some Qigong & breakfast.

Sifu Marc Webster of the Chinese Kung Fu Acade my was the leader of our group. I've been studying Tai Chi with Marc since June 2003 & I've been fortunate enough to also instruct Tai Chi since January 2005.

It is wonderful to spend time with someone who is so positive & always has something encouraging to say, regardless of how bad training might have actually been! Marc is a very busy man as he is also an Accupuncturist with a thriving practice at the A Team Clinic in Mudgeeraba; so it was great to spend a quite & peaceful Sunday morning training with him.

Then afterwards Mike & I went to the farmers markets to pick up fruit & vegetables, then shopping & lunch. It is his birthday on Tuesday - so I bought him a new hat [I'll post a photo later].

Once again, I hope you also had a great weekend. We have NO plans for next weekend & I'm going to try & keep it that way as all my books for university arrived on Thursday night & I haven't had the chance to start reading them yet - more on this in a later post!

Take care until next time

Ciao

Mish :)

xxx

Family Visit

Hubby & I visited his family on the Sunshine Coast this past weekend, mainly because he wanted to visit his mum :)

My husband comes from a 'clan' not a family; his parents divorced when he was a child & they both remarried - so you have this blend of two families with 7 kids - there is; Tim, Michael [hubby], Big David, Shane, Stacey, Little David & Antony!

All the kids [except for Antony] have partners & children of their own; so you can imagine how many people we have to visit everytime we go to the Sunshine Coast!

Hubby's mum [Annette] is a true country girl; even though she was raised in Sydney. The true love of her life was Mel, who ran the Wollombi Pub & is the creator of Dr Jurd's Jungle Juice - if you know what this is then you're as old as me - he he he!

[Annie, Michael & I - Feb 2008]

Sadly, Mel lost his battle with prostate cancer in February 2008 - we still miss him everyday :(

Valentine's weekend was close to the anniversary of his death; even more sad than this is that Annie has become quite weak & unable to live on her own since loosing Mel & last Wednesday moved from her independent living unit into full-time care at the retirement village. So hubby knew that Mum would need some cheering up & the sight of my 'mountain of a man' always makes her smile. So after training & teaching Tai Chi on Saturday morning we threw a few clothes in a bag, jumped in the car & off we went.

We had a lovely weekend spending time with the family, eating, talking & playing pool [a family favourite] & Michael & David took their mum to church on Sunday :) I was going to join them until Bella [David & Louise's new puppy] jumped up onto me with muddy paws & I was wearing cream pants - so I got to stay back & have another cup of coffee with Louise.

We had a late lunch on Sunday with Michael's Dad & 2nd Mum [Ernie & Cheryl] who were down visiting from the Whitsunday's [where they now live] - so all in all we got to visit with everyone. It's always nice to catch up with Michael's family; since Ernie & Cheryl sold their Sunshine Coast home & moved permanently to the Whitsunday's it's usually quite tricky to get all the kids & partners & their kids together - so seeing everyone was great :)

Unfortuantely the trip back to the Gold Coast was not so wonderful, we hit traffic near the turn off for Bribie Island [right at the roadworks] & that delayed our trip home by a little; but the coffee stop at Nudgee on the way south was still good & we did have a wonderful weekend - even if we were exhausted when we got home at 7pm on Sunday night.

I hope that you also had a great weekend - whether you spent it alone, with family, with friends or even working. This weekend has made me realise that life is too short to not smile everyday.

Ciao
Mish :)